We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
Peter O'Toole

The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
David McCullough

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
Joan Miro

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.
Walter Lang

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
Adolf Loos

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
Mattie Stepanek

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
John Charles Polanyi

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. Forester

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
Carl Orff

The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.
Bela Lugosi

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.
Bille August

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Judy Chicago

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
Roy Ayers

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
George Gurdjieff

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.
Hesiod

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
David Cronenberg